stop them; the Normans had caught the Saxons while they were off guard‚ weak and their numbers were thin. When they reached Hastings the Saxons have tried their best to reassemble the army and used their only advantage they had; the shield wall. A lucky shot from an archer finished off the battle as the arrow landed right in King Harold’s eye. After the Saxon army fled Norman’s armed with axes were sent to hack the Saxon king into enough pieces to make sure his body could not be recovered to bury
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Jollibee Commissary Jollibee is the largest fast food chain in the Philippines‚ operating a nationwide network of over 750 stores. A dominant market leader in the Philippines‚ Jollibee enjoys the lion’s share of the local market that is more than all the other multinational brands combined. The company has also embarked on an aggressive international expansion plan in the USA‚ Vietnam‚ Hong Kong‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Qatar and Brunei‚ firmly establishing itself as a growing international QSR player
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that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? According to UCLA biologist Jared Diamond‚ some countries grew faster than others because of geographic luck. It sounds like a simple theory‚ but there is a lot more to it. The lucky countries‚ like Spain‚ were lucky enough to have natural resources‚ indigenous plants‚ and animals that could be domesticated. With all of this at their fingertips‚ they were able to stop hunting and gathering and start farming. Farming didn’t require as much people
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The Khmer Rouge‚ a horrifying experience for the people who were there during those times. Some people were lucky to escape into Thailand but‚ the people who were not lucky were in hell. Pol Pot‚ the leader of the Khmer Rouge over threw the king of Cambodia and stated that “1975 was year zero for his country‚ resetting the culture of Cambodian people and wiping away old traditions and history so that revolutionaries could rebuild the nation.” “Banks‚ churches‚ schools‚ newspapers‚ radio‚ television
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titled‚ “Joseph Ismay” the owner of the Titanic was J. Bruce Ismay. J. Bruce Ismay was born on December 12‚ 1862. It was a tradition for him to board all of their companies ships. So‚ he did so for the Titanic. When the Titanic sank‚ he was one of the lucky ones who were able to survive the Titanic. As the article titled “Joseph Ismay” states‚ “After he survived the sinking‚ Ismay started a fund to benefit the widows of lost seamen”(Joseph Ismay) So‚ once he survived‚ he began to save up money for wives
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INFINITE Final Draft 18/3/13 Word Count: 777 I never understood the point of reading. My parents first introduced my siblings and I to its world at the early age of two. We were familiarized with letters‚ taught to link sound the visual and formed words with a stuttering start. We became accustomed to the quiet of Tuesday nights when my father would sit huddled on the sofa – my mother curled up in bed – his long nose buried in a novel‚ a black curtain cascading from her head to the pages‚ morphing
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Camus and the Absurdity of Existence in Waiting for Godot Angela Hotaling SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta‚ NY) Abstract: Albert Camus’ argues in The Myth of Sisyphus that human life is absurd and purposeless. Humans grapple with becoming conscious of the absurdity of existence‚ and this realization causes one to suffer. Basically‚ with the Death of God‚ men are deserted from God‚ and all of the meaning that God gives. One has to unhinge oneself from the desire for life with a meaning‚ and live amidst the
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their control influences one’s moral standing? I believe that the answer is both. I believe that one can witness a sunset and be lucky to do so‚ yet have no control over that sunset whatsoever. I believe moral standing and elements beyond one’s control are combined in regards to luck. Even if one had no control over the occurrence of the sunset or whatever event they are lucky to witness‚ the chance of that event occurring was very fortunate. I agree/believe that the problem of moral luck is due to the
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Approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust . The book Maus is about Artie trying to right a book on the experiences of his dad Vlaked in WW2 and the holocaust. In the book the characters are animals‚ the Jews are mice and the Nazi were cats which symbolizes the dog is superior then the cat. In Art Spiegekman’s Maus‚ Vladek is depicted as intelligent‚ brave‚ and thoughtful. Vladek is very intelligent throughout the whole book which helped him survive. Vladek always knows when
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family tree‚ at the front of the book‚ while the reading of the first few chapters. This novel portrays the hardships‚ struggles and "suffering" that a Vietnamese family endures through the years of approaching communism. Even after arriving in the lucky country Australia there is still "suffering"‚ caused by Hai Nguyen’s vicious gang. There are many "narrators" in the novel but the two main persons through whom the story of is told is Toan‚ the youngest son and Linh‚ Toon’s cousin and adopted sister
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